Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 75 57
Rank change year-on-year -43 -18 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,347 1,497 3,663
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 3.66% 4.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 3.93% 4.70%
Number of salaries quoted 903 1,030 2,791
10th Percentile £50,094 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +14.57% -15.53%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,420
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +11.11% -3.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,258 38,052 77,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.49% 93.03% 86.40%
Number of salaries quoted 37,754 22,305 57,991
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,079
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,410
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 3 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 3 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -32 1,229 £77,500 +3.33% 515
London +7 672 £87,500 +1.45% 226
Work from Home -18 599 £70,000 -2.77% 349
UK excluding London -107 568 £67,500 -3.57% 339
North of England -47 259 £67,500 -6.24% 130
North West -39 120 £67,500 -5.26% 76
South East -114 117 £75,000 +11.11% 90
Yorkshire -45 100 £70,000 -2.77% 31
South West -70 60 £62,500 -11.04% 35
Midlands -61 59 £67,500 +3.85% 36
North East +3 39 £65,000 +23.81% 28
East of England -27 39 £65,000 +13.04% 20
West Midlands -33 34 £72,500 +3.57% 21
Scotland -86 29 £60,000 -20.00% 16
East Midlands -58 24 £67,500 +3.85% 15
Wales -23 9 £55,200 +8.24% 13
Northern Ireland -37 5 £62,500 +13.64% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (2.23%) Apache Spark
2 19 (1.41%) Apache
3 18 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.26%) Confluence
5 15 (1.11%) OpenStack
5 15 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 13 (0.97%) JBoss
7 11 (0.82%) WebSphere
8 10 (0.74%) IIS
9 9 (0.67%) CMS
10 5 (0.37%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.37%) Appian
11 4 (0.30%) Camunda
11 4 (0.30%) GeoServer
11 4 (0.30%) nginx
12 3 (0.22%) Liferay
12 3 (0.22%) NServiceBus
12 3 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.15%) SharePoint
14 1 (0.074%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (1.04%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.52%) Maya
4 4 (0.30%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 8 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) Endur
4 4 (0.30%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) SAP FS
5 2 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.15%) Shopify
6 1 (0.074%) Actimize
6 1 (0.074%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.074%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.074%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.074%) Oracle Retail
6 1 (0.074%) Quorum
6 1 (0.074%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.074%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 744 (55.23%) AWS
2 581 (43.13%) Azure
3 309 (22.94%) GCP
4 240 (17.82%) Serverless
5 171 (12.69%) SaaS
6 118 (8.76%) GitHub
7 113 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
8 110 (8.17%) Amazon S3
9 101 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
10 99 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (5.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 69 (5.12%) Amazon SQS
13 67 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
14 54 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 48 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
17 46 (3.41%) OpenShift
18 43 (3.19%) PaaS
19 38 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
20 36 (2.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.79%) Broadband
2 11 (0.82%) HTTP
3 8 (0.59%) AMQP
4 7 (0.52%) Internet
4 7 (0.52%) Network Security
5 6 (0.45%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (0.45%) DNS
5 6 (0.45%) Firewall
6 5 (0.37%) DHCP
6 5 (0.37%) MQTT
7 4 (0.30%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.30%) SNMP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.22%) Modbus
8 3 (0.22%) Multicast
8 3 (0.22%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.15%) LTE
9 2 (0.15%) SSL
10 1 (0.074%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (13.88%) NoSQL
2 175 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
3 119 (8.83%) MongoDB
4 114 (8.46%) SQL Server
5 75 (5.57%) MySQL
6 67 (4.97%) Relational Database
7 64 (4.75%) DynamoDB
8 49 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.90%) Redis
10 33 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
11 32 (2.38%) BigQuery
12 29 (2.15%) Big Data
13 27 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
14 22 (1.63%) RDBMS
15 14 (1.04%) DB2
15 14 (1.04%) Power BI
16 13 (0.97%) Pinecone
17 11 (0.82%) Data Lake
18 10 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
19 9 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 182 (13.51%) Git
2 126 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 87 (6.46%) GitLab
4 56 (4.16%) TeamCity
5 49 (3.64%) JIRA
6 43 (3.19%) Cucumber
7 34 (2.52%) JUnit
8 31 (2.30%) Selenium
9 30 (2.23%) CircleCI
9 30 (2.23%) Cypress.io
10 19 (1.41%) Bitbucket
11 18 (1.34%) Mockito
12 17 (1.26%) Maven
13 14 (1.04%) Claude Code
14 13 (0.97%) SonarQube
15 11 (0.82%) Vite
16 10 (0.74%) JMeter
16 10 (0.74%) Postman
17 8 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
17 8 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 401 (29.77%) Finance
2 362 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 165 (12.25%) Banking
4 107 (7.94%) Law
5 94 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 87 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
7 78 (5.79%) Retail
8 69 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 58 (4.31%) Financial Institution
10 53 (3.93%) Telecoms
11 45 (3.34%) Back Office
12 21 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.41%) Billing
14 18 (1.34%) Advertising
14 18 (1.34%) Games
14 18 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.26%) Legal
16 13 (0.97%) Marketing
17 11 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 473 (35.12%) Developer
2 350 (25.98%) Senior
3 276 (20.49%) Software Engineer
4 206 (15.29%) Architect
5 171 (12.69%) Lead
6 123 (9.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 118 (8.76%) Senior Developer
8 110 (8.17%) Java Developer
9 96 (7.13%) Senior Software Engineer
10 93 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
11 84 (6.24%) Java Engineer
12 76 (5.64%) .NET Developer
13 64 (4.75%) Software Developer
14 52 (3.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 48 (3.56%) Java Software Engineer
16 46 (3.41%) Lead Developer
17 43 (3.19%) Principal Engineer
18 40 (2.97%) C# Developer
19 36 (2.67%) Senior Java Developer
19 36 (2.67%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 305 (22.64%) React
2 304 (22.57%) .NET
3 277 (20.56%) RESTful
4 222 (16.48%) Spring
5 218 (16.18%) REST
6 201 (14.92%) Node.js
7 193 (14.33%) Spring Boot
8 173 (12.84%) Kafka
9 119 (8.83%) AngularJS
10 96 (7.13%) .NET Core
11 92 (6.83%) gRPC
12 81 (6.01%) HTML
13 70 (5.20%) .NET Framework
13 70 (5.20%) CSS
14 67 (4.97%) RabbitMQ
15 61 (4.53%) ASP.NET
16 58 (4.31%) Vue
17 56 (4.16%) Django
18 53 (3.93%) Middleware
19 51 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 385 (28.58%) Cloud Native
2 238 (17.67%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (7.94%) Product Ownership
4 95 (7.05%) Enterprise Software
5 60 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
6 50 (3.71%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.34%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.34%) Video\Live Streaming
8 39 (2.90%) Data Structures
9 35 (2.60%) Algorithms
10 30 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
12 24 (1.78%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.78%) Virtual Team
13 23 (1.71%) Blockchain
14 22 (1.63%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.26%) IoT
16 16 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (1.19%) Management Information System
17 15 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 59 (4.38%) Linux
2 22 (1.63%) Windows
3 16 (1.19%) Android
4 7 (0.52%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.45%) Unix
6 5 (0.37%) CentOS
6 5 (0.37%) Debian
6 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.074%) Kali Linux
7 1 (0.074%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (48.33%) CI/CD
2 548 (40.68%) Agile
3 525 (38.98%) DevOps
4 520 (38.60%) Software Engineering
5 377 (27.99%) Containerisation
6 327 (24.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 289 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
8 276 (20.49%) Mentoring
9 265 (19.67%) Event-Driven
10 262 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 255 (18.93%) Test Automation
12 236 (17.52%) AI
13 203 (15.07%) Computer Science
14 193 (14.33%) Infrastructure as Code
15 163 (12.10%) Scrum
16 159 (11.80%) Clean Code
16 159 (11.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 154 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
18 151 (11.21%) TDD
19 150 (11.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 434 (32.22%) Java
2 374 (27.77%) Python
3 289 (21.46%) SQL
4 263 (19.52%) JavaScript
5 251 (18.63%) C#
6 214 (15.89%) TypeScript
7 124 (9.21%) Go
8 51 (3.79%) Scala
9 42 (3.12%) PHP
10 38 (2.82%) C++
11 34 (2.52%) C
12 33 (2.45%) Bash
13 28 (2.08%) Ruby
14 23 (1.71%) Kotlin
15 22 (1.63%) PL/SQL
16 16 (1.19%) Shell Script
17 15 (1.11%) PowerShell
18 14 (1.04%) Rust
19 10 (0.74%) Groovy
20 8 (0.59%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 199 (14.77%) Degree
2 124 (9.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 115 (8.54%) Security Cleared
4 81 (6.01%) SC Cleared
5 58 (4.31%) AWS Certification
6 40 (2.97%) Master's Degree
7 37 (2.75%) Azure Certification
8 30 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
9 26 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (1.11%) DV Cleared
12 14 (1.04%) CISSP
13 9 (0.67%) CISM
14 8 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.59%) PhD
15 6 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.37%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.01%) QA
2 33 (2.45%) GDPR
3 28 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 25 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.04%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.89%) NIST
8 10 (0.74%) NCSC
9 7 (0.52%) GRC
9 7 (0.52%) IFRS
10 6 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.30%) EMIR
12 4 (0.30%) SLA
13 3 (0.22%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.22%) SEPA
13 3 (0.22%) WCAG
14 2 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 416 (30.88%) Docker
2 13 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.37%) Firmware
4 2 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.074%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 415 (30.81%) Kubernetes
2 238 (17.67%) Terraform
3 87 (6.46%) Grafana
4 77 (5.72%) Ansible
5 37 (2.75%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.71%) Kibana
7 14 (1.04%) Argo
8 9 (0.67%) HP Fortify
8 9 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.45%) Puppet
10 5 (0.37%) Cilium
11 4 (0.30%) Istio
11 4 (0.30%) Packer
12 3 (0.22%) Nagios
12 3 (0.22%) Rancher
13 2 (0.15%) MIIS
13 2 (0.15%) Opsgenie
14 1 (0.074%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 128 (9.50%) Microsoft
2 59 (4.38%) Google
3 49 (3.64%) Oracle
4 45 (3.34%) Typelevel
5 19 (1.41%) IBM
6 17 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.19%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.19%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.19%) SAP
8 13 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
8 13 (0.97%) Dynatrace
9 12 (0.89%) AppDynamics
10 10 (0.74%) Atlassian
10 10 (0.74%) Cisco
10 10 (0.74%) MuleSoft
10 10 (0.74%) Palo Alto
10 10 (0.74%) Software AG
11 9 (0.67%) BiZZdesign
11 9 (0.67%) Databricks
11 9 (0.67%) Splunk